From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 6 22:54:30 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA05624 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 22:54:30 -0800 Received: from cls.net (freeside.cls.de [192.129.50.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id WAA05618 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 22:54:27 -0800 Received: by mail.cls.net (Smail3.1.29.1) from allegro.lemis.de (192.109.197.134) with smtp id ; Tue, 7 Nov 95 07:54 GMT From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Reply-To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Received: (grog@localhost) by allegro.lemis.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id HAA04130; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 07:53:47 +0100 Message-Id: <199511070653.HAA04130@allegro.lemis.de> Subject: Re: ideas from netbsd To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 07:53:47 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) In-Reply-To: <1156.815693864@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 6, 95 01:37:44 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 567 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > > > distributions you want. Another nice thing is that, at plenty of > > points in the setup procedure, it offers you the opportunity of > > dropping into a shell and having a look at what's going on behind the > > scenes. > > Whereas I just give you a shell as soon as I can (which is pretty early > on now) and let you use it as long as you like.. :-) OK, that would make a difference. On the version I have, it doesn't get fired up until you commit yourself. If you could use it almost any time before, that would be great. Greg